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IX THE 3IIBROB.
■What are they doing up yonder.
Those two in the concuvo glass.
tVe speak, wo smile, I watch you know.
The dusky light in your dark oyes glow,
I hear the ring in each word ypu say>
If the tone be mocking, or
But those two, our shadows, they at up
The tiny, defined, bright miniature pair;
They never alter, unless the flash
Of firelight leaps from tho hoary ash,
Athwart their rest to pass.
Who has sate there before us?
When these faded tanestnes shone.
Bright from tho dead hand’s patient tod
(May Christ tho parted souls a??oiIV
When the storied panes glowed fresh and
New set in yon window's earveu liche, _
And the knightly heads and .h golden
Of'the* old past, peopled with, boys and
Gleamed there in the days long gone.
Well, they are asleep with their shndows,
We live, love, say it mine own!
Will you give me your little hand to hold r
Will yon let me try it, this hoop of gold. ,
Will you smile, sweet eyes, and 60ft reu
Will S you seal in tho heart-light’s warm
CCiipfi6y , a
The lover’s pledge and the lover s vow/
See, what a pretty picture now.
On tho mirror’s face is thrown.
—f All the Year Round.
GEonoiAjrailroad stock was very strong
at Augusta Wednesday at 117J bid, and
110 asked.
The Augusta police are recruiting the
city finances by capturing the casual cow
and penning her until redeemed by the
owner, which process costs one dollar per
head and costs.
The Augusta tailors arc on a strike for
an increase of 15 per cent, on present
■wages.
Important Decision.—The Augusta
Chronicle has tbo following: At the last
term of tho Superior Couit of Richmond
couuty, James J. Spears obtained judg
ment against tlie Georgia railroad for a
horse, which was killed while beieg trans
ported from Atlanta to Augusta. The ev
idence showed that the horse got down in
the car and was trampled upon by the
other animals confined In the same car.
Theie was no negligence in the running
of the train or anything appertaining
to the mere transportation of tho ani
mals. The railroad company con
tended: First, that as to live stock,
it u as not a common carrier; that its legal
duly was only to iumlsh proper transport
ation and conduct it safely; and that it was
not liable for auy loss which occurred by
Teason of tbo vitality of tho freight or its
natural qualities aud propensities; and,
sccoud, that Spears, by two contracts, one
made in Nashville and the other in Atlan
ta, the consideration of each being a re
duced rate and a free passage for himself,
released the railroad from all liability re
sulting from anything except negligence
in running its trains. The Supreme Court
of Georgia, in a decUion rendered yester
day, reversed the judgment against the
railroad and sustained both branches of
the defence, holding that the railroad is
not a common carrier of live freight, and
that both the contracts made by Spears
are valid and protected the railroad.
The Nemo reports green peas in the Sa-
vauuah market, but forgets to mention
the price asked for them.
The Sews continues to discuss recent
railway legislation, and takes the position
that very frequently it has proven far
more injurious than beneficial. It says:
“We read that in New Tork the passen
ger rates on the Central road are fixed by
law. In consequence they have not been
great through lines. With freight charges
ft Is different; the companies have bad
these to settle for themselves, and in con
sequence of competition the rate per ton
expense of building a steam barge and
supplying it with appliances forremowng
obstructions bad to come out of ou. $8,000
appropriation, to say nothing of the'
•i ve experience which C apt. SI n*I ct on 11 a 1
to pay for out of the same fund. Fifieen
hundred dollars now will do more good
than the $8,000 did »t first.- That is not
all. Col. Blount Is of opinion that If a
eood show Is made with the amounts
which have been given us, Congress can
be Induced to ereatly increase them in tbe
future. Col. Blount may rest easy on
that score. The outside world will begin
to bear from Dublin in less than six
months after Jones’ boat is set afloat, and
if Congress will continue to do its duty
toward our river wfc shall soon see not
only a regulariineof freight boats between
here and tho bridge, but we shall have a
regular fast passenger boat, making the
trip dally and carrying the mails and ex
press freights.
J. R. Randall writes earnest words
of praise to the Augusta Chronicle con
cerning the Georgia Senators. He says
one thing is certain: Georgia has two
great Senators—ono the most brilliant In
the chamber, an intellectual giant, fully
equipped for an encounter, and surpass
ed by no man there in. the combined gilts
of eloquence and logic. The other is
practical, wise, executive, patient and
quietly dominant. No Senator stands
higher for ail the solid qualities of states
manship and that position will be main
tained and advanced. No State bas so re
doubtable a representation in the Senate,
and I believe that tbo power of our Sena-
tors for good, in all matters appertaining
to Georgia, will vastly increase rather
tbau diminish.
Savannah shipments on Thursday
ware 2,833 bales of cotton, 745 barrels of
naval stores - , 813 packages of fruit aud
414 crate3 of vegetables.
The Savannah river rose twenty-one
feet at Augusta on Thursday, and the
Ketcs says a total riso of thirty-eight feet
is confidently expec.ed.
A New Railroad. — The Augusta
Chronicle says: “For some time past
our neighbors aud friends of Oglethorpe
county have been getting up a railroad en
terprise to run from Crawford, on the
Athens branch, to tho Glade or Daven
port Mills over in Oglethorpe county. It
terminates at a flourishing point in the
fertile valley of the Broad river, and will
be a great advantage in opening np the
trade of surrounding counties. We un
derstand that an offer bas been made by
the projectors of this route to the Georgia
railroad, that the former will grade the
road and furnish it with crossties, which
cau be done, for about $25,000 or $30,000,
provided the latter company will iron it.
The matter has been informally talked
over among Georgia railroad directors,
aud the prospects arc that tho Georgia
railroad will do this, taking mortgaged
bonds upon the now road.”
Jeff H. Davis, charged with tho mur
der of Benjamin J. Hogc, was acquitted
at Sandersville last Thursday, and the
Herald says “the scene of rejoicing that
followed baffles description.”
The Irwihton Southerner announces
its platform on the subject of usury laws,
“Make,” it says, “7 per cent, the legal rate
of interest, where there is none mentioned,
and let the borrower and lender fix any
rate they please by agreement. We think
the usury law a farce, a humbug, a regu-
ular hard down piece of loolery to have
been patched up by men calling them
selves wise or legislators,
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says Mr.
John Dupree, of that county, made last
vear eighteen 500 pound bales of cotton
bushels of corn, and tbe plowing was all
done with two mules. He used 2,000
pounds of fertilizers. It also says that
per mile has steadily decreased on this | Mr. Allen W. Smith, of Wilcox county,
cultivated forty-five acres in cotton and
made twenty-eight bales of cotton aver
aging 505i pounds. He used 2,000 pounds
of fertilizers.
The Dispatch also has a notice of a
vineyard in that comity owned by
Messrs. Schneider and Starowski,
who commenced operations in
1870, aud in tbe spring of that year
they planted two thousand five hundred
plants or cuttings, Tho vines bear grapes
the third year after being planted, and in
1878 Messrs. Scbneidci and Starowski
made one thousand two hundred gal Ions of
wine from the first crop. Their vineyard
now embraces six acres, with four thou
sand three hundred vines in good condi
tion, and if it proves seasonable this year,
they expect to make over two thousand
gallons of wine. The principal varielies
of grapes cultivated are the Concord,
Delaware, Ive’s and Hartford. The vine
yard is laid off in rows six feet in width
aud the vines arc set eight feet apart in
the rows. The vines are supported
by trellis or fencing wire, attached
to cedar posts, and are made fast
to the wires by tying with willow withes.
The vineyard is under the supervision of
Mr. Biudschaedler, a native of Switzer
land, and an experienced wine-grower.
The juice is pressed from the grapes, after
going through the wino mill, by a wine
press aud both the mill and press are of
tbe latest and most improved patterns.
same New York Central road from 1 67
in 1873 to 0.87 in I860. If greater evi
dence is asked for to prove the Inefficiency
of legislation in such matters, it is fur
nished by the Boston and Providence
road, which has managed its own rates,
aud which, while the New York Central
has maintained a two cent rate, has
steadily decreased the passenger rate from
2.32 in 1875 to 1.80 In 1879. These fig
ures conclusively show that proper free
dom of action to railroads - as to
other corporations is necessary, and
is productive of more good eventually
than unjust restraint can effect. The
great trouble is tbat politicians too fre
quently take bold of a leading idea and
are led into indulging in thoughtless and
reckless legislation from hopes of advanc
ing th.'ir ow n political prospects, rathe
than from consideration for the puolic
good. No more important problem than
tbat of regulating railways can come be
fore any Legislature, for it is a subject in
which the State and every class of her
citizens are vitally interested, and no sub
ject demands more urgently that legisla
tive bodies, when considering it, should
determine to make baste slowly.
Mb. Joel L. Pyle, of Floyd county,
moved there in 1849 with only $2.50 iu
his pockets, and has been farming ever
since, and has uot only never bought a
bushel of com or a pound of meat, but
generally has both to sell.
The Covington Star learns that Dr.
Atticus G.Haygood of Emory College bas
just finished a book “On tbe Relation of
tbe Negro to the Sonth, and His Future in
this Section,” and tbat it is now in press.
A cow sold for $3.20 the other day at
Cm Ington, but such a cow!
The work of laying steel rails on the
Georgia railway is progressing rapidly,
and will soon be laid dow n as far as Yel
low river.
Nearly A Fire.—From the Americas
Republican: On Sunday morning, while
tho churches were holding service, the
roof of tbe kltcken of Co). B. C. Hinton
took fire from the flue and was beginning
to blaze when discovered. Col. Hinton,
who was at home, hastened to the roof,
and, with the assistance of a colored man
and a few buckets of water, extinguished
tbe fire before an alarm was made.
Fire at Anders on ville.—We Jearn
that the steam mill of Mr. Hugo Iiicliter
was destroyed by fire on Sunday night at
Andersonville. When tbe fire was dis
covered the flames had made such head
way as to render it impossible to save the
building aud contents. It is thought to
have beeu the work of an incendiary.
Our informant did not know if the mill
was insured. Loss not stated.
Sold.—A young man went out hunting
last week and saw a squirrel sitting on
the limb of a tree about sixty feet from
tbe ground. He took deliberate aim, and
fired. The squirrel didn’t move. He
ahot again, with the same result. Agaiu
and again, for thirty-seven times he took
deliberate aim and fired into tbe squirrel.
He at last grew desperate, aud laying
aside tbe gun, he proceeded to climb the
tree when be got In ten feet be was cha
grined to see that he had been shooting at
a squirrel skin stuffed and wired to the
limb. His cuss words were so very nu
merous that the two boys who bod played
tbe trick slipped quietly away terrified.
The Dablonega Signal reports increas
ed activity in mining matters in tbat sec
tion. ,Chicago capitalists are at Anroria,
and New York and Pennsylvania capital
ists at Dablonega- Ail tbe mines are on
full work,and much new machinery is be
ing put in. The Dawson county mines
are being actively developed.
Another Boom fob Dublin.—Uuder
this head,the Dublin Post has the follow
ing:
Of the $2,500 appropriated by the last
Congress for tbe Oconee river $1,500 will
go to that portion of tbe river between
)ublin and tbe Central railroad bridge.
Tils amount, while small, will, if Jodi-
ausly expended, do much good. In fact
r. W. B. Jones, who is well acquainted
"^ilb the situation, thinks it wtllbe suffi
cient to make the nver navigable at all
tlmce. It »ujt be remembered that the
criticised the financial policies of the dom-1 lx is reported from Washington to the
inftut parties. “The times,” said lie,“have Atlanta Constitution thii “the Rev. M. B.
gone from bad to worst, until it Is with ^Jut-ton, a prominent Georgia Baptist
the greatest difficulty that an honest farm
er is able, according to tho old saying, ‘to
make both ends meet.’” “1 should be
liappv,” responded Mrs. Cobb from the
audience, “If we could make even one eou
meat—and the other bread.”
We suspect tbat the Times has made a
mistake in the name of the lady, and tbat
Mrs. Clem C. Clay is referred to, as she is
a resident of Huntsville.
Perry shipped 4,109 bales of cotton
this, against 2,S00 last, season. Hawkins-
villo received between two ancltbreo
thousand bales more this year, than she
did last.
A Southern Ciuesus.—Henry Grady
has had his sore eyes cured by the sight
of a man whom he designates as above.
Here is tbe conversation which tells all
about the Croesus: ..... ,
“That is Richardson, of Mississippi —
tho largest cotton planter in tho t?orl<L’
“In the world ?” . _ _
“Yes, sir l The ex-Khedive of Egypt,
it is said, had a larger cotton crop than
Richardson—but he has since then gath
ered the largest crop of cotton ever planted
by ono man.”
“What does his crop amount to ?”
“It reached one year over 12,500 bales,
ne operates a Iaige number of plantations
and has a small army of laborers under
his control. He works Slate convicts
largely, and finds their labor, of course,
highly profitable.”
“I have heard, though, that this plant
ing was really the smallest part of his
buaine?®.”
“That is a pretty rough thing to say,
when liis cotton crop alone brings nearly
a million a year, and yeti suppose it Is
true. He is not only the largest planter
but is tho largest manufacturer in the
South. Ho owns a cotton factory that is
the largest iu tho South, except tbo Eagle
and l’henix. He told me that the gross
business of this factory alone was $1,000,-
000 in one year, and was very profitable.
It I am not mistaken, be said that be once
cleared 37 per cent, per annum on the
money invested in his cotton factory. Be
sides this, ho has tlneo or four cotton seed
oil mills that do au immense and profita
ble business. He sold a short time ago
1,000 barrels of cotton seed oil through the
Thurbers of this city to Antwerp. I sup
pose it will come back to us as olive oil.”
Besides being tbe largest planter and
manufacturer, he is tbe Tamest merchant
in the South. He is the heed of the house
of Richardson & May, which J understand
has handled more cotton in one year than
any house in the world. In one year
101,000 bales oi cotton passed ihrouuh its
hands. I do not think this business has
ever been surpassed. In addition to this
house, Mr. Richardson owns and runs a
great many country stores. He makes tho
purchases for these stores iu person in
New York, and will spend a day going
among the wholesale houses selecting
noUous, dry goods, etc., lor his country
stocks.
“Beyond all these tliingshotakes a lively
interest in general investment and in rail
roads especially. He is controlling owner
of the road from Shreveport to Vicksburg
and has several other interests, present and
prospective in railroads.”
“What is his fortune estimated at?”
“All the way from $5,000,000 to $20,
000,000. I suppose he is tbe richest man
in the South beyond doubt—but whether
he is worth more or less tbau $10,000,000
I cannot say.”
Gainesville is to have a broom
factory. The machinery has arrived, and
work will bo commenced in a few days.
The Atlanta Post-Appeal says the re
cent rains havo done much damage in
upper Georgia. On Thunmaj travel was
• ^nrmtnn.
Between Rome and Dalton the railroad
was under water in a number of places.
Tho State road at Adairsville was cov
ered yesterday with water a foot deep. A
bridge was damaged between LaGrange
and West Point in such a manner as to
throw the train out of time.
The Greensboro Herald says Capt. G,
A. Hal], trapped a two and a half pound
salmon at Park's mill in tbat county last
Tuesday, aud tbe indications are that the
tun will be large this year. Two years
ago 80,000 of the fish were put iu the
Oconee river at tbe Georgia rail way-
bridge in tbat county.
State Tbeasuby Items —We find the
following iu tbo Atlanta Constitution
Treasurer Speer has received a letter
from A. D. Williams, of Chicago, stating
that he had just recovered possession of
$10,000 of Georgia bunds, issued in aid of
the Atlantic and Gulf railroad, which
were lost in 1862. Mr. Williams states
tbat tin; bonds were sent throHgii the
Confederate lines under a fictitious ad
dress and were sent from Nassau to Hali
fax, Nova Scotia, where they were lost or
stolen. It is supposed that Mr. Williams
was known to be disloyal, as ho was
afraid tbo bonds would tail into the hands
of the United States and be confiscated.
The principal of $10,000 and the interest
for eighteen years at six per cent, is due,
amounting in all to over $20,000. The
bonds were due last August, and a singu
lar fact is that no bonds or coupons ol tho
numbers given have ever been presented
for payment during tho eighteen years.
The mill grinds the grapes without mash- ■ The question has been submitted to tho
lug or cracking the seeds. The wine is Governor, but It Is probable that if tho
conducted from the press into large casks bonds are presented and prove.to be genu-
in the wine cellar, where It ferments, and ; ue they will bo paid
after remaining in the casks one year the
wine la ready for bottling. The wine cel
lar is 20 feet in width and 70 feet iu
length, and is built of stone, which was
unearthed Irom that “poor hill-side.” The
masonry was executed by Mr. M. O’Brien,
and is the best work of tbe kind wo ever
saw. The wine grown at Pine Level
Vineyard is pronounced by good judges
to be far superior to any of the imported
brands, aud its purity is unquestioned. It
is tbe pure juice of the grape, and no su
gar or other mixture Is employed in its
manufacture.
Too Much Cotton.—Under this head,
tbe Talbotton Register frees its mind as
follows:
Cotton is tbe curse of any people who
-depend entirely upon its production for
their maintenance. It is the ruin of any
farmer who depends upon it entirely to
keep Ills plantation going. Everyman
who has tried it has gone down uuder
mortgages, remorseless but just. To-day
in Southwest Georgia hundreds and hun
dreds of farmers are running hither and
thither in search of some one who will
advance them supplies to ran their farms
another year, and the papers down there
tell us they can’t be accommodated.
What a state of affairs, to be sure 1 Before
the war not ono farmer in a hundred had
to buy corn, and with cotton at seven
cents a pound, he was able to go to the
January and February sales by sheriffs
and buy from three to ten able-bodied
young negro meD, for' twelve or fifteen
hundred dollars apiece. Now what
difference! And why? Answer: Cotton
and credit and extravagance.
One of our Geoigia colaborers in tbe
grand work of educating the people,
whose name we have unfortunately for
gotten, remarks with tbat strict accuracy
and felicity of expression which character
izes tbe profession, tbat “the Macon Tel
egraph and Messenger, under its new
management, is one ef the very best dsily
publications iu the South. It is always
brim full of interesting news items and
sparkling editorials, fend its correspon
dence department, containing news from
different sections of tbe State, Is an Inter
esting feature in its publication.”
I’khbt bas bought 158 bones and mulea
tbe past season.
The Columbus Times tails the follow
ing: Mn. Howell Cobb, of Alabama, Is
one of tbe brightest ladies in tbe country;
snd many an old Washingtonian of ante
bellum times recalls ber sparkling wit.
Some time ago Hon. W. M. Lowe, tbe
member from Huntsville district, was
making a political speech In that city, and
beluga thorough Greenbacker,severely
He has also received notice from J. S.
L&ibrop, of Savannah, to look out for
$20,000 of Georgia bonds which were
stolen in tho Northampton bank robbery
m 1876.
The LaGrange Reporter thinks the
peach and apple trees in that section have
been done for,so far as tho coming season
is concerned. The peach crop has failed
eveiy year since 1877.
Mbs. Elizabeth Green, of Union
couuty, fell into the fire last Tuesday
while sitting before it dressing one of her
children, and was fatally burned, dying
almost instantly.
Americus bas received and shipped to
the country this season, about three thou
sand tons of fertilizers.
A Judge in Close Quarters.—Un
der this head, tbo Athens Watchman tolls
he following on Judge Pottle of the
Northern circuit: At the last fall term of
the Superior Court In Madison county,
Judge Pottle, of tho Northern circuit, in
which tbat county is situated, and a cer
tain prominent lawyer of this city were
boarding at the same house inDaniels-
ville. One night after the court bad ad
journed the Judge and lawyer got Into a
spirited discussieu on some point of law,
w hich had entered largely into a charge
delivered to the jury by tiie Judge. Tho
discussion waxed warm and finally led to
angry words and almost to blows. It was
supprcased, however, by friends of both
gentlemen. Afterwards, wo believe it
was renewed at tbe supper table and
threatened to become serious, but it was
again quieted. Of course an affair of this
kind soon spread throughout tho quiet
county of Madison aud waa much talked
about. At the term of the court last week
Judge Pottle was again on the bench
and delivered a vigorous charge
to the grand jury and ad
monished them strongly to ferret out
crime and present it in all instances wher-
it came to their knowledge. This iqjunce
Uon teemed to put the jurors on their met
tle, and they went to work with a will to
obey it implicitly. Whethei of their own
motion or at the suggestion of others, tbe
old affair of the Judge and lawyer was re
vived, and it soon began to be whispered
around tbat a bill would be found against
the judge for assault. This was a ticklish
proceedure for a judge to be in, in bis
own court, and there was no way to pre
vent it if the Jury were in earnest. It
seems, however, tbat the matter was more
of a hoax than anything else, though we
are told some of tbe Jury meant business,
and only failed to make a presentment
because of a lack of support. The leaned
Judge was In hot water for several days,
and much amusement was had by the
bar at bis expense.
minister, Is an applicant for the consulship
at Basle, Switzerland. He is here to look
after his own interests.”
Hon. S. M. Fortner, ex-representative
from Emanuel, aud afterwards from John
son county, died last week. •
We mutilate the fair proportions of tho
Oglethorpe Echo to the following extent:
To the Point.—Rev. David E. Butler,
of Granger fame, and who took tho stump
for Norwood, asked an old grey-headed
negro on the train who lie worked for in
the late gubernatorial campaign, “rsc a
preacher of tho Gospel, boss; I wucked fur
do Lord. Who you wucks fur!” Our
informant said the Reverend politician
crawled in his shell aud didn’t come out
uutil he disembarked.
Got ’em Bad.—“Bill Arp” told us this
joke on Col. Action, agent of Atlanta
Constitution, which is too good to keep:
The Colonel was on the train and telling
a countryman about tbe prevalence of
mumps in Atlauta. “Yes,” replied tbe
rustic, “it ’pears like you’ve taken ’em
liko b—1 on one jaw youreelfl” It took
the Colonel some time to convince the
clod-knocker that it was a wen aud not
the mumps tbat ailed him.
Runnino Short.—Out fanners are
buying more guano than any year since
the war. Many brands are giving out,
and it is thought that some planters will
go lacking.
A Prosperous Farmer.—Mr. Joe N*
Burton, of this county, don’t use a pound
of guano, and ’ raises not only meat and
corn to run his faim but to sell. When
tbe war ended Mr. Button did not own a
foot of laud, and he now owns three fine
plantations and says he will pay any man
$500 who can bring $1 of indebtedness
ajainst him. „ _ „
Fifty Cents a Seed.—Mr. Wylie
Bush paid $18 for thirty-six cotton seed
that ho got from Texas, guaranteed to
mature two crops a season and yield
enormously a llut that brings three cents
aj pound more than tho ordinary staple.
Comment unnecessary.
It Is telegraphed to the Augusta News,
of Friday afternoon, from Washington,
tbat'“it Is all nonsense about {Fitzsimons
being removed. He will not be disturbed
for a long while.”
The same paper bas these additional
items: “Georgia railroad stock is firm
and unchanged to-day at quotations, and
Ceutral is strong aud advancing. A sale
is reported at 111)}, aud the stock is quoted
at 1I0| to 111.”
Dhowned in the Street.—Three ne
groes were drowned about mid-day in
swift current in the highway Just below
Bauford’s brick yard, near the race track.
They were in a batteau and tho boat was
overturned by tbo rushing eddy, and with
its trio of water explorers sunk to rise no
more. This tho first Io«s of life occa
sioned by our spring freshet.
Some of the University students at,
Athens have sowed about a bushel of tur
nip seed in tbe recently ploughed aud
harrowed college campus, and the larg
est crop is expected that ever grew in tbat
section.
The Columbus papers say the factories
over there have beeu forced by high wa
ter to suspend operations, and it is not
probable they will resame work before
the middle of noxt vreok.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
“Tbe Emerald Isle.”
Epithets and phrases of general signifi
cance in hnman affairs and mere descrip
tion becomo the common property of tho
people. xln, • • - *°“imes rather
a— luvnta. and are u» ^ ... ,
quotation credit, “Tho Emerald Isle, 3f4-
scriptivo of Ireland, is each a phrase. It
was first used by somebody—no one knows
who—but the anonymous author waa care
ful to point out its first appoarance in
poem of his or hers. The poem is pre
served in vol. rx. of tho Belfast Monthly
Magazine, 1812, printed and published by
Joseph Smyth. It is introduced by a state
ment that it was written and first published
in 1705, and evidently tho phrase soon camo
into general use. Tho author was anxious
that its connoction with the poem should
uot bo lost, and to preserve the emerald in
its original setting was the object of its re
publication in tho magozino. Tho follow
ing is tho poem complete, and tho sen
timent!, are those of tho sons of Erin to
day :
When Erin first rose from the dark swel
ling flood,
God bless’d the green Island—He saw it
was good.
The cm’raJd of Europe, it sparkled, it
shone
In the ring of this world tho most precious
ST. PATBICK’S CELEBBATIOX. mies, said that he had been present with of too cotton market as any of his competi-!
I joy at the cradle of Irish liberty, and that
A Gala Oceaelen—Speeches, Music sorrowfully he had followed its corpse to
and Banqueting* • the grave. But wo, my friends, ns Chris-
If there ever was a successful celebration, tians, believe in a glorious resurrection,
the one held in Masonic Hail last evening, “
In her sun, in her soil, in her station thrice
bless’d,
With baok tamed to Britain, her face to the
West,
Erin stands, proudly insular, on herstoep
shore,
And strikes her high harp to the ocean's
deep roar.
But when its soft tones seem to mourn and
to weep.
The dark chain of silenco is cast o’er the
deep;
At the thought of the past tears - gush from
her eyes,
And the pulse of the heart makes the whito
bosom rise.
O sons of green Erin, lament o’er the
time
■When religion was—war; and our country
—a crime I
When men, in God’s image, inverted His
plan:
And moulded their god from tho imago of
man.
When the int’rest of Stalo wrought the gen
eral woe;
The strangor—a friend; and the native—a
foe;
While tho mother rejoic’d o’er her children
distress’d,
And clasp’d the invader more close to her
breast.
When with Pale for tho body and Pale for
the soul,
Church and State join’d in compact to con
quer the whole;
And while Shannon ran red with Milesian
blood,
Ey’d each other askance, and pronounc’d
it was good.
By the groans tbat ascend from your fore
fathers’ grnvo
For their country thus left to the brnte and
the slave,
Drive the demon of bigotry home to his
den,
And where Britain made brutes now let
Erin make men.
Let thy sons, like the leaves of tbe sham
rock, unite;
A partition of sects from one foot-stalk of
Give
righ
each
ht;
his foil share of this earth and
yon sky.
Nor fatten toe slave where the serpent
would die.
Alas for poor Erin, that some still nre seen
Who would dye the grass red in their hatred
to green!
Yet ohl when you’re np and they down, let
them live,
Then yield them that meroy which they did
not give.
Arm of Erin, prove strong! bat be gentle
as brave;
And uplifted to strike, still be ready to
save;
Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to
defile
The cause, or the men of the Emerald Isle.
The cause II is good, sad the men they are
tone,
And the green shall outlive both the orange
BliQ bldfii
And the daughters of Erin her triumph
■hall share,
With their full-swelling chest and tbe fair-
flowing hair.
Their bosoms heave high for the worthy
snd breve.
But no coward shall root on that soft-swell
ing wave;
lien of Erin, awake 1 end make baste to be
blast’d 1
Hist, arch of the ocean 1 Use, queen of toe
West 1 i
under tbe auspices of the Macon Land
League, will ever be classed as ono of the
greatest
The audience was a fine ono, and in
cluded a large number of ladies. That all
were highly gratified could be discovered
from the frequent bursts of applause with
which the hall re-echoed. There were pres
ent on the stage, besides the offieere-of the
league and the orators of the evening, Rev.
Dr. Battle, Rev. B. F. Jackson, Rev. Dr.
Semmes, and others. The stage was neat
ly set and in the centre there was a beauti-
rul festoon of the Irish nnd American flags,
and abovo them the coat-of-orms of the
State.
P Tbe Macon Volunteers’ band discoursed
tbe sweetest music from tho gallery, and
charmed the andienoo with the boauty of
its melody and tbe excellence which it dis
played.
After several selections of music, Prof.
Daly advnnced to the footlights and opened
the meeting with tho following speech,
which, by its eloquence and tho earnest
ness of its delivery, commanded tbe closest
attention of tho audience, and elicited fre
quent bursts of applause:
Ladies and Gentlemen: As the presid
ing officer of the Macon Land League, tho
duty davolvesnpon mo to call this meeting
to order and briefly state tho object of the
call. At tho outset let me say we have no
apology to offer for this assemblage. Tiioso
of os who first hailed the dawn of exis
tence on Irish soil, or who by descent feel
tho warm Celtic blood coursing through
our veins, havo no apology to offer, for bo
they scattered in the remotest comer of
the earth, Irishmen, whilo true to the land
ol their ndoption, ever hold in fond remem-
brnneo too homes and ashes of their fath
ers. As Amorican citizens, wo have no
apology to offor* for sinco tho timo that
our ancestors first unfurled tho banner of
constitutional liberty over a century ago
nnd begot the Ughtthat we hope will yet il
lumine tho political world, the great heart
of America lias ever gono forth in sympa
thy towards the opprcs*d of every nation.
But ns Georgians, much less havo wo nu
apology to male for tills assemblage, for
Georgia has not forgotten that a vast num
ber of the pioneers and heroes who first
tilled her soil and laid tho foundation for
her future greatness, wero born on Irish
soil; Georgia does not forget that many of
her citizens who, by their efforts, raised her
to political prominence, and afterward de
fended the commonwealth with their lives
when its existence was in dangor, had Irish
blood in their veins. Georgia does not for
got that it was an Irishman, Jasper, who
snatched from tho dust the spotless stan
dard of her sister Stato when it wa3 shot
from its shnft by British shells; and, lastly,
Georgia does not forget that tho lost timo
that illustrious band of exiles, tho glorious
Irish brigade, who, under the baunor of
France, nad fought the battles of continen
tal Europe, appear upon tho pages of his
tory; it was in 1779 when, under the gal
lant Col. Dillon, they wero annihilated
upon the ramparts of Savannah fighting
for Georgia’s liberty nnd Georgia’s inde
pendence.
In assembling here this ovomng,. my
friends, we are but vindicating those rights
wo have enjoyed for yeara past, and which
as American citizens wo consider tho most
sacred and the most inaliennble. _ And in
expressing onr sympathy for the Irish peo
ple in their present peaceful agitation for
these same rights, wo aro but declaring
anow to the world that wo still believe that
tho right of a people to destroy a tyrannical
monopoly, the right of a peoplo to petition
for redress of grievances, tho right of trial
by jury and the right of freedom of speech
arc the only foundations of civilized gov
vemment. . ... .
It is a snd thought, my friends, to know
that the nation againstwhioh this agitation
is directed, .tho nation which has stilled the
rights and liberties of every people with
called civilized nation in its dealings with
other countries has ever made use of tho
crudest maxim of barbarity, namely, that
might is right.
Outside of England proper—I havo no
hesitation in making the assertion—where
ever the English flag has been unfurled,
misery and want have followed in its
track and constitutional liberty has ever
been assassinated. Tho policy of England
seems ever to be to prostitute all other
peoples to her base uses. She planted her
standard in India, tho libertiei of the peo
ple were destroyed, the temples of their
gods were defiled, a periodic famine sot in
upon tho land, and misery aud want havo
reigned supremo evorsinco; she declared
war upon China because that nation en
deavored to protect its citizens from tbo
debasing influence of a demoralizing nar
cotic ana endeavored to prevent England
from poisoning tho inhabitants by soiling
them tho opium drag; she set her foot
upon tho soil of Sonth Africa and in a trice
sho despoiled the native tribes, smothered
the rights of tho bravo Boor whom she is
now threatening to annihilate for having
the manliness to battle for his homo nnd
independence; she set her foot npon Iro-
tand, and oh, my friends, tho story will bo
told by others in more eloquent strains
than I con command. It is tho darkest,
saddest page of history. Poets havo pic
tured tier wrongs in the most pathetic
strains; orators nave condemned them in
tho most withering terms; yet to-day the
wrong, the misery, the injustice still goes
on, and England has declared through her
Parliament that tho very last vestigo of
Ireland’s rights must bo trampled upon—
must be blotted out. As humane men. : s
lovers of liberty, wo should not, we cannot,
let this go on without entering our protest
against the unholy act
By tho most unjust lnw3 England destroy
ed the commerce and the manufactures of
Ireland in order to aggrandize herself, and
reduced the Irish people to depend upon
agriculture alone for subsistence, ind yet
foar-fifths of the land of Ireland is owned
by 700 men, who aro rendered szeuro in
their holdings by the fiction of tho old feu
dal land laws, evict their tonacts at will
nnd exact exorbitant rents from them
while the vast bulk of this rack rent is not
spent in Ireland but is squandered at the
luxurious resorts of London, Paris and
elsewhere on tho conlinefft. It is a terrible
state of affairs, my friends, to find 4,000,000
of human beings at tho absolute mercy of
700 individuals. The result is continual
misery and periodic famines, nnd when
theso famines come and Ireland turns to
England, into whose coders sho pours an
nually $60,000,000 in taxes, sho is spurned
like a dog. Tho English Parliament has
never contributed one cent to allevinto the
many famines that havo desolated Ireland.
Theso are the reasons, my friends, that
every few years Ireland is seen begging for
bread, and gaining a scanty subsistence
from the charity of distant nations. It was
John Stewart Mill who laid it down as tho
fundamental principle of political econo
my that tho land of n nation belongs of
right to the people of the nation, and his
maxim was that inasmuch os tne people
owned the soil that they tilled in so much
tho more wore they prosperous. Tho Irish
havo accepted this doctrine as a cure for
the famires and troubles that have har
assed tho land and they have endeavored
to establish it by peaceful agitation. Tho
stories of outrages with which the press
dispateues teem are all fabrications.
We of the South have had so much expe
rience with the bloody shirt that we are not
epAly deceived by such tricks as these. The
Irish members of Parliament attempted to
gain a hearing for their starving constitu
ents, but that representative body of landed
aristocracy answered by depriving tho
Irish of trial by jury and excelling iu rep
resentatives. Ireland asked for a redress
of gnevanoes; England answered by de
stroying the last vestige of their liberties.
Ireland asked for bread; England answered
by sending them buckshot. And, yet, Ire
land has deserved better at tho hands of
England; but England has forgotten that
it was Irish soldiers that swam tbe moat
and climbed the bloody heights of Badajos;
England has forgotten that it was an Irish
regiment which checked the charge of the
Imperial Guard at Waterloo—that famous
guard that had never reeled in the shock of
war before: England has forgotten that it
was an Irish regiment of GOO who marched
into the jawa of death on the field of Bala-
klava.
To-night, we are here to sympathize with
this brave people in their struggle for con
stitutional righto. Ireland has a right to
expect this sympathy from os; for has she
not always been oar steadfast friend; and
has she not sent to our shores the flower of
sign before him, and methinks that even
now can be discerned toe dawning of a bet
ter day.
At the close of his gemarks Prof. Daly
called upon Mayor Corput to preside over
the meeting, and that gentleman accepted
the position with some very happy remarks
and occupied 1 it d iring tho evening with
grace and dignity.
Goionel Thomas Hardeman was then
introduced as the orator of the evening, nnd
a glorious orator he-proved- to be. Never
lias Ireland's misery been portrayed in
more pathetic strains; never has her rights
been defended with more eloquence and
logic. The audience were held spell-bound
by his oratory, nnd round after round of
applause greeted his effort. So beautiful
was the speech and so logical, and coming
from such a source, that we will make
every effort to publish it in to-morrow’s
issue, and we are sure that it will be found
most interesting reading.
The following resolutions wero thon read
before the meeting:
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, it is well known that tho peoplo
of Ireland have been long laboring under
many and heavy griovancos brought on by
tho unjust laws of an unfeeling govern
ment, nnd by a tyrannical landed aris
tocracy'that has long fostered hatred and
exiled her people; and
Whereas, Ireland is at present engaged
in tho laudable effort to mitigate her
wrongs by a peaceful yet firm agitation;
and
Whereas, wo deem a fixity of tenure in
dispensable to tho weU-bcing of an essen
tially agricultural people, and considor the
old feudal loud laws as a relic of barbar-
iam; and . , . , ,
Whereas, wo view the struggle in Ireland
as a straggle against a gigantio monopoly,
nnd hold that all monopolies are opposed
to tho well being of a people; and
Whereas, it has beeu tho policy of tho
English government to trample upon the
rights and blot out the independence of all
nations with whom it has come in contact;
Resolved, That we hereby give expression
to our entire condemnation of the course
adopted by tho British Parliament in this
the bitterest hour of Ireland’s distress, and
that wo fail to find words sufficiently strong
to condemn the enactment^ of a coercion
bUl and tho suspension, in the time of
peace, Of the habeas corpus nnd tho free
dom of speech, against a people suffering
from tho effects of famine and struggling
for a bare subsistence.
Resolved. That wo entirely apprevo of tho
principles of the Land League nnd with tho
legitimate means it is employing to accom
plish a great reform, and that wo pledge
ourselves to unite with all classes in sus
taining tliis movement by every means con
sistent with tho honor aud freedom of our
own glorious and free country, and in
obtaining for the tillers of the soil the
absolute right to tho fruits thereof.
Resolved, That wo, the friends of liberty
and tho favored children of a free republic,
without distinction of creed or nationality,
most heartily sympathize with the Irish
people in their noble efforts, against fear
ful odds, to maintain themselves in the
land of their forefathers and to obtain from
their rulers aud their legislators such lib
er. I land laws as will secure to them and
their descendants the fruits of thoir toil
and enable them to live in circumstances
prosperous nnd contented.
Resolved, That tho aggressive and tyran
nical bearing of the English government
towards a weaker people meets with onr
strongest reprobation, and that wo hope
that all people will be as successful in over
throwing its despotic power as were onr
fathers in 1776.
After tho reading of the resolutions, the
Rev. J. W. Burke was introduced, and in
one of those practical speeches, for which
that gentleman is noted, ho heartily iden
tified himself with the cause of the league.
He was followed by the Hon. James H.
Ttlnnnt. who enthused tho audienco with the
fervor with which he detenaeu uio i»uj
League, and pleaded tho cause of Ireland’s
rights; his speech will long bo remembered
by the audienco who had tho pleasure of
hearing it. After reading a letter from the
Hon. A- O. Bacon, complimentary to the
league, tho resolutions offored above were
passed by a rising vote amid much enthu
siasm, and tho meeting was brought to
close. It was the universal opinion of all
present that the Irishmen of Macon, thoso
of Irish descont and Irish sympathies had
celebrated the festal day of tho Emerald
Isle in a way that reflected honor upon
themselves and that gave a new impetus to
tho respect in which tho Irishmen of Macon
areheld.
THE BANQUET.
After the exercises in the hall, the speak
ers, tho band and somo invited guests re
paired to Isoao’s cafe, where that caterer to
tbo public taste had prepared a feast fit for
the gods. After enjoying the good things
the festive glass was passed around, and
amid the. smoke circling from somo of
Cromeline’s “Belle Creoles” tho ready wit
and the killing Irish joke darted a to and the
gay board. Speeches wero made in the
most happy vein by the Rev. R. F. Jackson,
Hon. Jas. H. Blount, Dr. Semmes, Father
Bazin, Professor Daly, and others.
The Macon Volunteer’s Band was toasted
and thanked for their services, and Mr. W.
F. Johnson answered for tho band inn
happy voi_, for, he said, he did not wish the
assemblage to think that the band was defi
cient in brass.
Many fine sentiments were proposed and
among them ono by Mr. E. O’Connell,
“England as sho ought to be, Ireland as
sho will be, and America as she is.”
It was asserted that it was not as far
from tbe eapitol at Washington to tho Covo
of Cork ns it was from the same eapitol to
tho Hall of the Montezamas, and if empire
was stretching in the latter direction, it
might be reasonably hoped that it would
extend to the east and embrace uuder the
eagles of America tho Emerald Gem of
the sea.
The press was toasted, and was answered
in proper terms by Mr. Edwards, of the
Telegraph. Amid such a genial flow of
soul and wit the assemblage dispersed, and
the kindly feelings generated among all
those present of so many creeds and
nationalities will last for many a day and
will reflect honor npon those gentlemen
who planned and carried ont such a beau
tiful and enjoyable celebration of Ireland’s
national festival.
tors. This was evinced by the facility with
which be amassed targe sums of money by
trading in the staple. Alas! like too many }
others, however, he could never consent to j
“retire,” and, infatuated by success, would
extend his speculations until some unlook
ed-for commercial revulsion found him
again at the bottom of the ladder.
Thus it ever was with him through life—
either riding on the crested wave of pros
perity or struggling in the billowy trough
of the sen of adversity. But amid all these
vicissitudes of fortune, no enemy dared
assail his personal character or the integrity
of liis transactions. He was always straight
forward, manly and oorrect in his dealings.
Mr. Seymour, when ha possessed the means,
was noted also for his many unselfish acts
of kindness and liberality to tho needy and
unfortunate. Eternity only can reveal the
nature and extent of theso benefactions.
As an instance we need only refer to tho
following characteristic incident:
After one of our battles during tho war,
when the 6ick and wounded Confederates
wore sent to tho rear at Macon, this genial
gentleman fillod his private mansion with
wounded soldiers, nursing them with tho
utmost tenderness for many weeks, nnd
from hi3 private purae ministering to their
every want and comfort.
When in the grocery business, too, many
were the poor widows and orphans who
received substantial help at his hands from
week to week. Within the last few years,
however, repeated attacks of illness sapped
the strength and weakened tho energies of
tliis irrepressible gentleman, uutil finally,
after a six months’desperate struggle with
tho King of Terrors, ho was forced to suc
cumb, and went to his long rest greatly
beloved by friends and kindred and in the
blessed assurance of a glorious immortality
bevond the grave.
Onr friend wrs a member of the First
Baptist Church, and his worthy pastor, Dr.
Warren, faithfully ministered to him in the
closing scenes of nis Ufe. Nothing was left
undono tbat medical skill, and the untiring
devotion oi wife and family could accom
plish, but in vain, and now hs sleeps that
sleep that knows no awakening.
Mr. Seymour loaves a fond wife, two
daughters and n stripling son of tender
years to mourn their irreparable loss. Ho
was also a brother of Mis. D. R. Rodgers
of this city, and leaves quite a large circle
of relatives.
May God comfort and sustain them _ ell
under this sore bereavement. Tho writer
asks tho privilege of mingling his tears
with theirs at tho departure of his ancient
and life-long friend. May his ashes rest
in peace. H. II. J.
AXOTIlEli MAX OX THE MOX
V31 EXT.
In Xenorim.
With the deoease of Jcsoph N. Seymour,
Macon lost one of her oldest living land
marks and most worthy citizens. He diod,
after a painful and protracted illness, on
Wednesday, March lGth, and yesterday at
the conclusion of the impressive funeral
services pronounced by Rev. Dr. Warren,
was borne from bis residence on Fine
street and tenderly laid by the side of the
Tom Arter Lets Himself Lomo on an
Unfortunate Trntnp.
That ho was painfally shirtless was reck
lessly evident from the manner in which
tho upturned collar of his dingy duster—an
Incoherent combination of coat, handker
chief and spring mattrass—crawled np to
his unshaven chin to assist sweet charity in
covering up a multitude of sins, and partic
ularly to disguise the absence of the regu
lation linen, and then tost itself in the tan
gled meshes of unkempt hair. It was
suspected that he wore pants, for beneath
the flapping skirts of the wrinkled duster
hung the frazzled edges of bifurcated
garments, hinting that somewhere between
the biauk milestones of the sad and dreary
past this humble tramp might have been
the proud possessor of a perfect pair of
patchiess pants. They had flopped their
voluminous folds in the cool, biting climate
of tho far North, and had toyed with tho
sun-burned breezes of the solid Sonth.
Treasured within tho interstices of tho
fabric—interwoven in the loom of fate and
by the spindle of circumstance—was the
chocolate alluvial of California and the
crimson clay of Georgia. ’
And his shoes wero baseless fabrics of a
dream. They hung to his callous feet by
the dim suspicion of a string and the ties of
old association. They had pressed the vir
gin soil of velvety valleys and had trod
monatain passes whore tho foot of man
ne’er trod before. They had led him
from the lap of luxury, from the palace of
opulence to tho privations or poverty and
to the depths of degradation. They had
pressed too luxurious carpet of the draw-
iug room and toe bare floor of the prison.
He was a tramp. Tho wide world was
his home — the hidden world his des
tination. No flowers grew in toe garden of
his life—naught hut rank weeds whoso
odors stifled. Yet he was a man—warped
as he was. Fate had long since kicked him
into the gutter and left him to flounder in
tho mire. No hand was ever held oat to
3ave him, nnd he started out to view the
vast world—his home.
He passed through Macon yesterday.
And as lie came up town iiis eve rested upon
the palid shaft which noble hands nad
reared to a noble dead. Nearer he ap
proached it, and finally stood upon the
granite base. The rimless hat comedown
from its roost of matted locks inrever-
t-noe. Unmindful of the gaze of passers-
by who, attracted by toe ragged tramp in
so reverential an attitude, he slowly rend
and reread toe inscriptions, nnd the feat
ures of his face, hardened by frown and
care, relaxed and seemed lit np with a
strange light. His stomach, like some
banquet hall deserted, longed for food, and
his legs, attenuated by cold nnd overwork,
craved rest; but the monument, capped by
tiie soldier of the lost cause, silenced each
appeal.
For a long time did tliis tattered tramp
feed his eyes upon that marble shaft. Per
haps he cast his lot with the blue, or perhaps
he wore the gray—no matter. Perhaps that
monument unrolled anew the panorama of
the past and he saw again some beloved
son or brother who had been swept away
from liis heart by the simoon of war. Cer
tain ’tie,something opened the Ud-dykes for
tho way-worn tramp wiped away a tear
from his eyes. Upon whose grave memory
droppod that tear we do not know.
Then he turned away, but not without be
stowing one more look upon toe white sol
dier. As ho walked away, Ms duster sway
ing mournfully in the breeze, with too fea
tures of his face gradually getting back in
position, a citizen who had watched the
proceeding with no UtUe interest, ventured
to ash him why a sight of tho monument
affected him.
Throwing back his hat as if to allow his
words good room, he answered:
“If it hadn’ter been for that dura war I’d
a had seventy-five niggers, and my wife
wouldn’fve ran away with a dau-burn
galoot of a Yankee soldier l”
Then he asked the citizen for a chew of
tobacco, the loan of a quarter and a square
meal, and passed on to other fields and
pastures new. Tom Artec..
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lowing for our Sunday School peoplo to re
flect upon:
“The casual visitor at St, James Sunday
School will be astonished at the large at
tendance of scholars and visitors that as
semble at that popular school each Sunday.
Yesterday there were between four hun
dred nnd fifty .and five hundred young peo
ple there, and toe school is as prosperous
now as it was nnder the superintendence of
Mr. Wm. C. Derry, who was its foandt-r
and builder, and brought it up to its pres-1
ent stato of perfection. While Mr. Derry I
was one of the best superintendents in the ;
State, Mr. W. F. Parks, its present super- '•
intendent. well sustains toe fine reputation ^
of tho school, and we guarantee it will
lose none of its interest through Ms able
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Isthe Best and Most
Agreeable Preparation
in the World.
For constipation, Biliousness,
EXeadadte, Torpid X,tver, Hem*
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Disorder!* arising: front an ob*
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Ladle* and children, nnd tlinao who dislike
lakins BUl and nnuscuua medicines, nre espe
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TROPIC-FRUIT LAXATIVE may bo used
In rdl cases that need the aid of n nnreattvv,
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tolheui. Patketl Inbrvnwd llsbonsoaly.
Price 25 cts. Large boxes 6oc.
Sold by all first-class Druggists.
lailrtsd lllihsps.
The Camak train, wMch left Macon yes
terday morning on the Angusta road, was
unable to proceed 'farther than Haddock’s
dear cMldren, in Rose Still Cemetery, who Station, some ter. miles from Macon,owing
had preceded him. j to a washout of the road on the other side
The subject of this sketch was bom at ’ of Haddock’s. Last night’s train left Macon
Baisden’sBluff, a delightful seaboard resort on regular schedule time, but the officers of
in McIntosh connty, Georgia, July 18th, the train did not know whether the road
1818, and was, therefore, fast nearing Ms would be in condition for the train to pro-
G3rd birthday. His was indeed a checkered . oeed on to Camak or not.
career, full of life and incident. When a j The train from Atlanta due here yester-
mere cMld, his mother, a most estimable day morning at 6:30 a. m., did not reach
woman, removed to. old Banbury, one of Maoon until noon, owing to the engine be-
toe “dead tov. os of Georgia,” and there re- , ing unable to make steam,
mained daring h.s childhood days. The Columbus train that should have
The writer was toe schoolmate of Jacob, ! reached here Wednesday afternoon, did
teSAina * AsvTS'i.sJ t";
vividly recall that July day in 1836 when ' B:1 " JU8t twenty-four hours behind time,
pioneered by Jacob, the elder, who had' owing to the smash-up of freight trains by
me before,the mother and her family left the spreading of the track a short
“*r quiet seaside home to brave the hard-
ships of what was then still almost a fron- Fort Valley, and to wMch we al-
. 1 tier settlement. , laded in yesterday’s Trlsoraph. The train
her manhood, who 80 1'* move proved higMy advantageous, due here yesterday afternoon from Co-
fought our battles, and filled with honor and the bo>s, full of energy and enterprise, Inmhnr rnnnMnimthr.m. • . , ,
and {prudence thehigheat stations of trust, soon began to make their way in the world. ’ ambus > cons6( i aollU y caal * m about anhour
I assure you, my friends, this sympathy will and ere long were regarded as among the latCl
not be thrown to the winds; for nowadays, most reliable and successful citizen* of Ma- I Tbe various accidents of the past few
public opinion it a great lever to move the con. ! _... .. y
world, and it has succeeded where the Joseph was possessed of a clear and sa- ** “** • eeaE nnmarotw *
sword has been known to foil. Curran, in gaoioas intellect and admirable business are m comparatively few compared
J®* °t toose admirable speeches winch capacity. Be eras always as well posted the many trains running daily on the
have elicited the praise even of his one- upon financial matters aad the mntatfons different lines
1
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